“It seems to me that where the cinematographer locates the exposure is going to bécome an incredibly political issue, because where you place that, and where that could be shifted by a kid in.a grading suite somewhere that you’ve never met and never will meet, it’s gonna be such an important issue from now on in and maybe the BSC and the ASC and all the cinematographic – the confederation has to come together [and] really work this one out, because it’s going to get really serious what happens to everybody’s image making from now on in.”
—Terry Flaxton, RWA, Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Media, West of England Uni, BSC Expo 2016 – HDR Viewed from the Cinematographers Perspective, British Society of Cinematographers YouTube channel, Feb. 27, 2024
At a BSC panel on HDR back in 2016, a speaker loses his mind over what will become of all of his beloved muddy DVDs and Blu-rays once they are remastered in high dynamic range, condescendingly referring to professional colorists as ‘kids’. ARRI colorist Florian ‘Utsi’ Martin, sitting beside him, looks very uncomfortable.
The Daejeon Chronicles 
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